Traffic to UK Pirate Party Website Skyrockets After TPB Block

[JMcEntegart]

Pirate Bay block means increased exposure for the UK's Pirate Party.

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[ojas]

Alexa now ranks them as the UK's 1,550th most popular website. Three weeks ago, their ranking was outside of 1000.

Well, it still is!

 

[cumi2k4]

Arr!!! Shiver me timber, matey...

guess how many new pirate this "advertising" generate? Must be the best advertisement ever for the pirate party that (other people's)money can buy...

 

[esrever]

This really doesn't do anything to stop piracy...

 

[iceman1992]

Nice! Teach those fools they can't block any parts of the internet

 

[mariusmotea]

UK and China share the same thing. Internet censorship

 

[v3nom777]

[citation][nom]esrever[/nom]This really doesn't do anything to stop piracy...[/citation]

In fact, it kind of has the opposite effect of stopping it. Just makes them more popular than ever.

 

[Sonny73N]

Ojas, you beat me to that. How about this one too: Paragraph 2 "iAs a result of...". What the hell is iAs?

 

[olaf]

banning something makes it even more interesting, after all people want to know what it is that they are forbidden to have

 

[mobrocket]

so many typos its hard to read

 

[michaelssw]

[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]Well, it still is![/citation]

Im going to assum sinc it actualy taks effor to put in a coma (i.e. 1,550) that she meent out side 10000? Not sur

 

[XmortisX]

Dear Government officials, RIAA, MPAA etc. etc.

You can't stop it, you can't control it, you don't own it. Leave our internet alone, find ways to make appealing offers to consumers and please stop the more you do this the more we will rebel.

Yours truly,

The Internet and its Users.

 

[gm0n3y]

I'm going to be voting for the Pirate Party of Canada next election (if there is a candidate running in my riding) and am going to encourage everyone else I know to do the same. Most people I know are fed up with all of the main parties anyway so it shouldn't be hard to get them to vote for a cause that actually makes sense.

 

[doron]

" iAs a result of this prominent placement, traffic to the Pirate Party UK site has risen a tremendous amount."

You better fix this or prepare your lawyers for Apple.

 

[koga73]

Ready yer cannons mates we're sailing through the British blockade!

 

[brucen13]

My first thought is what the judge thinks about this massive reversal to his order... then my second thought was he has to be thick in the head to come to such a judgement in the first place, so nevermind my first thought... he probably doesn't even realize what he's done.

 

[eddieroolz]

This is a classical case of the sun and wind approach, if you know what I mean. TPB sure gained a lot of exposure in media from this.